Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-29

nectiGn between thought and phosphorus |
tian other elements u i1od.
4 Birmingham firm IS making an car in !
which tle blade is made from the bsst !
sheet steel snd highly tempered. |. j. |
put forward IS being much stronger tlsn
the ordinary wooden one, and carDO, |
be broken without undue violence. The
hsrdle 1i;8 into q socket running nearly |
the whole length OF the blade and forming
q backbone OF grea. strength. TIE car,
being much thinner IL the blade than ?
wooden oue, enters and leaves the water
cleaner. The handles are INSIDE separately,
Of ordinary spruce or Ssh, and II broken
c&n De reSGiiy replaced.
a new material called nemortoiythe has
been introduced in the manufacture Of
paptr l. is SAID TO be far superior e.
plaster or kaolin. Il contains from % to
96 per cent. CT silicaie OF magEesia and
resembles in It's composition asbestos
and other silicates OF magnesi4. Il is
distinguished by It's great purity and is
freedom from peroxide of iron, from sui
phur ard from lime. 1t Is of bill
liant white cGlUr, and paper from il takes
very high gloz4. 1t is f5rouS, and IS
therefore susceptible OE telling. Those
VIM Ia NAS-Nt IL Span FS- -4sSA " -
The Electrical Review thus describes
hermeiicslly sealed batteries. The cell is
made Of ebOl.te, and is closed b. an
ebcnitG iii vita 3 washer CT soft inGis-
rubber. TIE upper pGr5 CT the cell IS
split up inSl several divisions, III when
are placed the CacDoDs sud zines: tie
| lower part contains the exciting fd,d.
| Tee battery is put into action by revers-
! ing it. II the eD2nite lii are operturss
closed by thin sheets OF i2ii&-ru1ber
| These allow OF the expansion q the gas
produced il the battery with0u. any Ti.k
Of damage &c the eb)1ita cell, sad with
cut the scid being i@Toad up through the
Vcnt, es IS tG2 case in other h3ra is y
sealed batteries.
Dr.. Grili.hs, 81 EoG,ish physician, has
recently Ger. GHS,r&.ed taat iron 6uiDhGte
= "a aLtiGCtc for many Of the most
y.Yulent epidomics which attack field arc
garden crops. These diseases are due 20
microscopic funguses, whose structures
sra huils 10 in :. somewhat different N 81
ner from the corresponding parts mother
PLANTS. IL appears thG. the cel!u!Cse in
these fun@usas is ected upon BY iron
su!phate, whereas IN the higher plsIts tbC
CelluloEe 6 the Cell-Walls is nOt in
futnCeG. The iron sUlpIate destroys the
CelluIos2 OF the fuDguse5, Tut does not
effect tlat OF the attacked ylant. i -,
therefore, an antidote ard destroyer Of
such parasitic germs and fungusea as the
potato disease, wheat mildew, etc.
A newly patented composition for the
rem oval sad e7asure Of writing irks or
writing fluids from p7ner, cloth ana sill
! a
| inks may come il contact with,
! without Injury 10 The paper or other sub
/ stance, consists of the following iogredi-
ents: -Four quarts OF water, four ounces
! Of CitrIc scid, twelve to sixteen ounces of
strong solution Of boIaX and three-quar-
tiers OF g pound Of chloride Of lime. In
preparing the composition TWO quarts of
water which have been previously boiled
and cooled Gra taken. -Four ounces OF
citric acid are added, and, after the acid
has been dissolved, SIX to eight curses of
6 strong strained solution OF DCTaX are
added, atter which the whole may be put
in bottle or suitsble receptacle. Man
ufacturer5' Gazette.
As G. breeder Of disease there are few
things that excel the average farmhouse
cellar. Ii UuderIies the whole house,
with nothing 20 prevent its eXhGlations
rising into the upper rooms except . thin
board floor. II this cellar ell manner o.
things fer n ally use are kept the season
round. Meat, vegetables, milk, butter
bread, pastry, preserves, pickles md ilu.l
are here stored in their various reCep
tacles. There is vcry seldom anything &c
separate the fruit and vegetables from tbs
other parts Of the cellar, and there Is
usually more OF less GGcayiug vegetable
matter to load the air with pois0D0u:
germs. st various seasons Of the year
the cellar walls collect dampness, OF
small pools eff water lie under their loose
board floors, sending up maIari0u5 OdOrs
into the room shove Manufacturer
and Builder.
Raft timber that has been fiOated 50wT
rivers has been ascertained to be nC
longer liable to the attack of dry rot. S,
much so il this seid 20 be the case that il
AlsGce it is customary TO specify thgt Only
raft timber sh9Il be employed. The Wate
slowly dissolves out the slbumen an(
salts, and thus deprives the fungus OF th;
nutriment needfui for it's development. I
French investigator, we are told, ha
found by experiment that, whereas fresl
saWdusJ from wood which has beer
soaked some time in water, and bsS there
by beer deprived of soluble matters, will
remain in the ground under similar Cir
cumstances wholly unchanged and onl.
. slightly tinged ca the exterior with earth
IL matters dissolved from the soil.
Two interesting physical experiment
are amusing French scientific men. Il
, the first lighted candle is placed behint
bottle, and the latter is blown up0l
with the breath from distance Of abou
2 foot. The meeting Of the air current
set in motion around the bottle quick,
extinguishes the flame, though extinction
would be impossible il a fat board @
l sheet OF cardboard should be substituted
for the bottle. For the second expert
ment two bottles are placed on table
with q space OF half an inch betweel
them. The candle is set behind thi
: space, and from the same dlstence as be
: fore, on the opposite side, the breath i
blown smartly against the fame. No
, only will the latter continue burning, 5u
it viii incline slightly toward the opera
! tor as il through the effect OF suction
This phenomenon, analogous to the first
) ia due to the fac that e portion of tn
sir ceIGCt pass between the bottles, en-
is forced around them and BACK toWart
the eXDerimeuter.
watch having but one wheel is still